Haunted not clearing innerHTML before first render

[micahjon]

I'm working on upgrading BeFunky to the latest version of Lit and Haunted.

We currently don't use shadow DOM for components, and I noticed that when useShadowDOM: false is set, Haunted doesn't clear the initial content in the custom element before rendering. Initial content is really helpful for progressive enhancement, avoiding layout shift when the component JS loads and renders, e.g.

<custom-element>
  <span class="loading-placeholder">Loading...<span>
</custom-element>

This was fine in Lit 1.*, but in Lit 2.*, the render() function doesn't clear the container's contents.

From the Lit upgrade guide: https://lit.dev/docs/releases/upgrade/#lit-html

render() no longer clears the container it's rendered to on first render. It now appends to the container by default.

I'm guessing we'll need to set component.innerHTML = '' before the first render manually when useShadowDOM: false is set.

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Bug replicated in Codepen: https://codepen.io/pranksinatra/pen/XWqrpBj

[micahjon]

Submitted a PR that should fix this issue. Open to any and all feedback, thanks!

[tommywalkie]

Slightly related to the question, is there a pragmatic way to use slotted content and/or retrieve the initial content before the first render? Currently playing with this on [email protected]:

function SampleCard(element: HTMLElement) {
  const [slot] = useState(Array.from(element.childNodes));
  element.innerHTML = "";
  return html`<div class="whatever-container">${slot}</div>`; 
}

Probably won't work after #445 is merged.